Dr.Pecker
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Do you ever recycle your soil? I never did for cannabis, I would take the old soil and throw it in the garden. But i'm trying it this year. Im re amending supersoil with cow manure.
giving defoliation during flower a try
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Uncle Ben
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My fear too, as a noob decades ago. I have plucked many a petiole, buried deep, and never had rot. I also make it a habit to use my brain - pinch and wait a few hours/day for the "wound" to callous over.
Having said that there are some plants you don't bury deep. For example, don't know why but when it comes to peppers it seems to stunt them and once stunted, they never fully recover. You don't plant perennials like trees deep either, etc......
Dr.Pecker
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pinch out the rotted part?
Uncle Ben
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For cannabis, no. Too damn many roots. I too dump it in the veggie garden. I also fear problems like viable eggs of root gnats, springtails, etc. There's also a loss of soil structure due to organic material breaking down. When you make your own soil mix by the bucket load there's no need to be cheap. This is half what I used one session.
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Uncle Ben
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Won't work. Once those spores are in the plant tissue. You might be able to salvage the plant with an application of a systemic fungicide like Myclobutanil which is labeled for consumables depending on the brand.
Dr.Pecker
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You said something about pinching and letting it scab over.
Uncle Ben
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Yep. Pinch off using your fingernails. Let it callous over. There's been plenty of times I pinched off lower branches and planted tomato seedlings immediately. Never had a problem.
waterdawg
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Thanks for the prompt reply and yes UB did comment as I stated. His responce was somewhat muted re the defoilating part. As for the burying of the plant, i have done that with great results and have takin it one step further by pinning branches to the ground at intervals and rooting sections, it was pretty cool having a pot plant looking like a cucumber.UB did make a comment, and he is very aware of the tomato grower trick of burying the stem and approves. The other trick works better on seedlings than on clones but if you remove the big fan under a branch, the plant will push that branch up to replace the leaf, tis how I got all those big colasonly do it in veg and wait till it recovers
waterdawg
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I understand your stance in the bury the stem thing, as I said in my follow up with RM I have done it as well. I was more curiuos about was your stance on the defoliation practiced by RM, I was hoping for some clarification.
AlphaPhase
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I'm pretty sure it's in jorge's book, read it again. A zero dif in temp at day and night leads to necrosis...............................................................................................................................
Edit: I meant Chlorosis.
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stankyyank
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Slightly off topic, but here's a cool tomato setup, plenty of sauce in there though.
a senile fungus
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Do you guys remember where the 'how to keep a bonsai mom' post is in this thread? I tried to search to no avail. There's too much bullshit on this thread.
Uncle Ben
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What a waste of space. Very low yield.
waterdawg
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So I see that you do like dodge ball as well lol.
stankyyank
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Well, it isn't that low if you compare it to root mass, assuming it is contained in the partial image of a pot. You
see the fire extinguisher to the right? Those aren't cherry tomatoes next to it. It's a decent plant. You can disagree if you see otherwise. For many medical growers, plant counts matter, and the idea of vegging a little longer for some extra yield is worth it.
stankyyank
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If you look closely, you will see a lot of unripe fruit, hard to see as it is as green as the canopy.